Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Circus in America

By Craig | Published: February 23, 2007

One of my favorite projects from IATH (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Virginia is the Circus in America project; spanning the period from 1793-1940. The Circus has been one of the most significant forms of popular entertainment in America. Between 1793 -1940 the circus evolved from a small [...]

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The Nora Project: Humanities Text Mining

By Craig | Published: February 22, 2007

This is what can be done with existing digital libraries: The goal of the nora project is to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries. In search-and-retrieval, we bring specific queries to collections of text and get back (more or less useful) [...]

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E-Science within the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Enabling Collaboration through Sakai

By Craig | Published: February 22, 2007

Collaboration is fundamental to scholars in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has deep roots through the production of co-authored works, the analysis of text and cultural objects, and the peer dissemination of research results. Collaboration is also essential in the formation and advancement of scholarly ideas through collaborative discussions at conferences, seminars, tutorials [...]

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Vidipedia

By Craig | Published: February 21, 2007

After 640-802, many professionals think that it is of no use to write 70-290 as well. This is why they skip it and go for 646-204 directly. Although this makes them eligible for 642-901 , but majority flunks the real exam. _____________________________________________ A wiki for video…check out this research at the the University of Newcastle [...]

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timeXchange Project

By Craig | Published: February 20, 2007

Another interesting application from the Web 2.0 world is timeXchange.net based in Chicago. For the increasing number of us whose work is project oriented, this system offers a easy way to manage and track expenses. Thanks to Joe PieKarz for the (Link).

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What is the Haystack Project?

By Craig | Published: February 20, 2007

The Haystack Project is investigating approaches designed to let people manage their information in ways that make the most sense to them. By removing arbitrary application-created barriers, which handle only certain information “types” and relationships as defined by the developer, we aim to let users define their most effective arrangements and connections between views of [...]

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UK E-Science: All Hands Conference

By Craig | Published: February 20, 2007

The UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) provides a forum for discussion and demonstration of a broad range of e-Science projects from all disciplines. The conference features many excellent opportunities for networking through presentations by researchers who are active in e-Science projects, poster sessions, workshops and demonstrations. The schedule also includes a number of invited [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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